If you’re looking for your torrent of pirated comics this Wednesday, you might have a more difficult time than usual. The Pirate Bay was knocked offline, after police in Sweden raided the controversial technology tool, seizing servers, computers, and other officer equipment. Violations of copyright law are the reasons cited and reported for the move.

In a statement to TorrentFreak, police national coordinator for IP enforcement Paul Pintér said:

There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law.

Numerous websites are down on top of the Pirate Bay’s main website (at least the previous version of it). The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org, image-hosting website Bayimg.com, and text-hosting website Pastebay.net are also offline. Other peer-to-peer torrent sites have also been brought down as well.

This comes a couple of days after Google Play took down apps related to The Pirate Bay, and around a month after the arrest of four of the co-founders for the website.

The Pirate Bay is already back online at a Costa Rican top-level domain, showing the game of whac-a-mole that’s played when trying to combat this sort of thing.

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